Murphey-Jennings House

Murphey-Jennings House
Location 307 Walnut Street, Sumner, Mississippi
Coordinates 33°58′01″N 90°22′10″W / 33.96694°N 90.36944°W / 33.96694; -90.36944 (Murphey-Jennings House)Coordinates: 33°58′01″N 90°22′10″W / 33.96694°N 90.36944°W / 33.96694; -90.36944 (Murphey-Jennings House)
Area 1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built 1904 (1904)
Architect Frank R. McGeoy
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference # 82004632[1]
Added to NRHP March 25, 1982

The Murphey-Jennings House is a historic house in Sumner, Mississippi. It was built in 1904 Smith Murphey II, a planter who owned 26,000 acres of arable land.[2] Murphey was also the owner of a store in Sumner. After he died in 1904, his widow married Hugh Jackson Jennings, a planter and philanthropist who supported the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis.[2] Her second husband died in 1921, and she died in 1962.[2]

The house was designed by Frank R. McGeoy in the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architectural styles.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 25, 1982.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Murphey-Jennings House". National Park Service. Retrieved July 18, 2018. With accompanying pictures
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